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Routing Attention

13 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Aurko Roy et al. in Efficient Content-Based Sparse Attention with Routing Transformers

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Routed Attention is an attention pattern proposed as part of the Routing Transformer architecture. Each attention module considers a clustering of the space: the current timestep only attends to context belonging to the same cluster. In other word, the current time-step query is routed to a limited number of context through its cluster assignment. This can be contrasted with strided attention patterns and those proposed with the Sparse Transformer.

In the image to the right, the rows represent the outputs while the columns represent the inputs. The different colors represent cluster memberships for the output token.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Decoder3
Segmentation3
Semantic Segmentation3
Image Segmentation2
Object Detection2
object-detection2
2D Object Detection1
Anatomical Landmark Detection1
Anatomy1
Attribute1
Computational Efficiency1
Contrastive Learning1
Diagnostic1
Few-Shot Learning1
Form1
Image Classification1
Image Dehazing1
Image Generation1
Language Modeling1
Language Modelling1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Routing Attention: 2020 to 2025, peak 5 5 0 2020: 1 paper 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 1 paper 2022 2023: 3 papers 2023 2024: 5 papers 2024 2025: 2 papers 2025
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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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